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Well. This is certainly one of the challenges that held up to the title of the series.

The return of the NBC series Fear Factor is already causing controversy, as we've reported, after the network yanked an episode that involved contestants forced to drink donkey spunk, but apparently, staffers on the series are furious, because the aforementioned challenge was linked to another in the episode that involved the risk-takers jumping a car through a moving train - and it cost them around $150,000!

Furthermore, some of the crew is baffled as to why NBC would pull "hands down the nastiest concept" out of a bunch of pitches that never even made it into the development stage, and as one source explains:

"There's lots of other gross stuff, but how do you top donkey semen?"

Well, if VOM-inducing nastiness is the line not to cross, then we can personally accept not being subjected to that on our TV screens!

But with the amount of publicity this is getting, you just KNOW that the episode will eventually find its way out there - one way or another!

It seems as if Fear Factor's donkey semen episode is getting talked about even more for NOT airing than it would if it had actually been shown as was originally planned.

After one of the semen chugging contestants spoke out about the donkey stunt and gave some of the gory details about the spunk swallowing episode, NBC has threatened serious legal action.

The contestant spoke about how horrible chugging the semen was because it had been left out in hot sun all day.

Omg. We just gagged.

After she was going to appear on camera for a live interview NBC immediately threatened to enforce the confidentiality agreement in her contract and has shut down any communication with the media in regards to the episode.

Apparently all the other contestants have also been told to keep their mouths shut.

We think if they don't want publicity, they are doing the exact opposite of laying low.

Thankfully, according to Endemol North America chairman David Goldberg, Joe Rogan IS "very high on the list" of potential hosts for the just-announced reboot of Fear Factor!

Goldberg continues:

“Joe was a great host. I think his brand and his personality is associated with this show. This has all happened fairly fast. We’ll sit down with Joe and see if something he even wants to do. He’ll certainly be very high on the list.”

NBC is not afraid to revive its reality hit that forced contestants to lay in piles of insects, eat animal genitalia, or climb hundreds of feet into the air on flimsy helicopter ladders. Yes, we're talking about Fear Factor.

The success of The Voice, as well as Fear Factor repeat's exceptional viewership on sister cable channel Chiller, prompted the network to return to the action classic.

After being impressed by re-runs of the show himself, NBC’s head of alternative programming, Paul Telegdy, said:

“No one has come close to doing what they’ve done on that show. You go back and they’ve stood the test of time. It always had this incredible spectacle to it.”

Now they are going bigger and better! No word on if Joe Rogan will return to host the show or when it will premiere, but Telegdy continued to share:

“The stunt and camera technologies have evolved since then, we’re going to be able to make it even bigger. We’re going to make it more visually arresting.”

Sounds inneresting! Can't wait to see what kind of crazy stunts producers have up their sleeve this time!